Karl Kautsky

Karl Kautsky (16 October 1854-17 October 1938) was a Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPD) politician and orthodox Marxist philosopher.

Biography
Karl Kautsky was born on 16 October 1854 in Prague, Austrian Empire, and he studied history, philosophy, and economics at the University of Vienna. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Austria in 1875, and he smuggled socialist material into the German Empire at the time of the Anti-Socialist Laws. In 1881, Kautsky met Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in England. In 1887, he wrote The Economic Doctrines of Karl Marx, as well as Thomas More and His Utopia in 1888, and he believed in evolutionary socialism instead of revolutionary socialism. Kautksy would also become a Social Democratic Party of Germany politician, and he engaged in polemics against the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. Kautsky died in 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.